The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-03
Farm Suggestions.

Do lot sprinkle ashes too close to the ten
der plants, but scatter around them.
The best table fowl is cross of the game
cock and Dorking hen.
Kill the white caterpillars, as they lay
the eggs which hatch the cabbage worm.
During the warm weather lice in the
poultry housewife breed with amazing
rapidly.
In warm weather the hogs should be lib
orally supplied with pure clean water, or
disease may be the result.
After your fruit shall be off manure the
current bushes, trim off the superhuous
branches and give the ground around them
thorough cleaning.
The summer is the time to repair the
roads If good work is to be done, If the
roads be repaired late in the season the
frost will render them impossible.
If the tomatoes be of heavy growth and
the vines fallen, stake the vines and trim
out the dense foliage. The vines blossom
and riIen fiuit all the season up to the
time f. frost.
Michigan shows decrease OF sheep for
several J ears past. The loss from 1884 to
1885 was S8,Sl2; from 1885 to 1886 it was
232, 036, aud the number now on hand is
lbs, $50 less than in 1886.
There Is no way to prevent toads getting
into the we'll except 10 cement over the
earth around the we'll for q circumference
of six feet, and the cover and top of the
well should be close and tight.
Gather your cucumbers while they are
small and green. There is no advantage in
having large pickles. Cat them off the
vines with knife instead of pulling them,
which is liable 10 injure the vines.
q A report is given in the Rural Press OF
the case of cow which died after eating
oleander. The cow got into front yard
| where the oleander was growing. 1t stated
hat the prussic acid in the oleander was
| the cauEe of the death of the COW.
The newest remedy for the cabbage worm
| is a tablespoonful of saltpeter in pailful
| of tpid water. The plants should be
sprinkled well two or three times. 1t il
| not poisonous and, il it will kill the
worms, is the safest remedy yet proposed.
| Where weeds persist in springing up a:
| fast as they are cut OFF kero e0e oil may be
used TO advantage. II small quantity
be poured on the plants after beng GU
down the effect will be to destroy them
Dock weeds and dandellIons are easily de
stroyed by the use of kerose1e.
Prof. Burrill traced a root of a two-year
old grapevine thirteen feet. Mr.. Salterth
waite, OF Pennsylvania, has found roots OIL
atwefve-year-old peach-tree fifty feet from
the tree. Mr.. Thomas has found suckers
from a common locust forty feet high at Q
distance of sixty.fve feet, and the roots Of
peach.tree eleven feet high twenty-five
feet away,
Sheep manure contains from 90 to % pei
cent. of the plant food contained in the "a
tiops consumed by the sheep. 1t is,ithere
fore, very rich fertilizer, as experience
has shown. tits especially rich in nitro
gen in an available form, and for that rea
SOD Is excellent for use as starter i1 TIT
hill for corn and potatoes.
The farmer who considers all matter
designed for the improvement of agricul
ture will not neglect the sheep. In an Ole
weedy pasture or wood lot they will more
than pay their keeping by the service per
J formed In keeping down the noxious weed